Feds ready whistleblower trial
BY GLENN GREENWALD APR 13, 2012 Salon.com
John Krikaou (Credit: AP/Jacquelyn Martin)
[Glenn Greenwald is on vacation this week and three writers will be filling in for him]
By Jesselyn Radack Salon.com
Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer John Kiriakou — the sixth whistleblower the Obama administration has indicted under the Espionage Act for alleged mishandling of classified information — was arraigned this morning in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. As expected, Kiriakou pleaded “not guilty” to all the charges. No-nonsense U.S District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema set a pre-trial motions hearing for July 20, 2012 and trial for November 26, 2012.
The arraignment was more notable for who was not present than for who was there. Conspicuously absent was the esteemed Patrick Fitzgerald — well-known as the federal prosecutor in charge of the investigation of theValerie Plame CIA leak case, which led to the prosecution and conviction of Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff for perjury—whose name graces the Indictment. Instead the Department of Justice (DOJ) sent four junior-level attorneys, making it a distinct possibility that DOJ knows its case if full of gaping holes. Judge Brinkema even pointed out that one of the DOJ attorneys “had not practiced before this court much” (paraphrased), which was just one of her choice one-liners during the proceedings.
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Compare the prosecution of CIA Agent Kirakou who disclosed details about the CIA torture program with the fact that the CIA Official not only got off scot free but has also published a book about his having illegally ordered that the videotapes of waterboarding be destroyed: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/04/25